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Search Engines for Match-Making?

I look up my Blog Stats every day and I keep a complete list of search phrases that attracted people to my translator’s blog. They are in a little file in a corner of my desktop, just in case they come in handy at a later stage…

But these search phrases can be weird.

See this one, and I’m not making it up:

“American billionaire buys 395,000 shares”

It’s a weird one, because:

1- I don’t know any American billionaire, or any that I am aware of.

2- I haven’t translated a book by an American billionaire, although I’d love to.

3- I never mentioned any American billionaire in my posts, even with a view to attracting visitors indirectly. Now I might am ;-).

4- If there is an American billionaire who bought 395,000 shares of any stock recently (Société Générale doesn’t count…), he can feel free to contact me directly, as I am interested to explore what we might have in common, that Google/Yahoo/MSN has already spotted, and I haven’t.

5- If there is an American billionaire who bought 395,000 shares of any stock recently (Société Générale doesn’t count…), he can feel free to contact me directly, as I am interested to hear what useful tips (apart from online marketing offers) he would have for an aspiring French billionaire.

Naturally, I googled the phrase, but didn’t find anything conclusive (my URL).

Are search engines entering the match-making market now? Hmmmm… interesting.

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2 Responses to “Search Engines for Match-Making?”

  1. Tinu Says:
    January 27th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    Hey Nadine,

    :) I know what you mean about finding strange phrases in your server logs. To figure out what page they’re landing on (and possibly turn those phrases to your eventual advantage) try installing a plugin called slimstat.

    With this plugin, when it tracks the link, you’ll find the details of where the traffic came from. I wrote an article called How to Increase Web Site Visitors For Relevant Terms Using Your Less Relevant Listings that gives you the steps to turn the searches to your advantage. You can find it at ezine articles or Google it.

  2. admin Says:
    January 27th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    Thanks Tinu, I’ve found everything. Great ideas.

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